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Welcome to the ineedhits Search Engine Marketing blog, where we share the latest search engine and online marketing news, releases, industry trends and great DIY tips and advise.
Last week I reported on a potential war brewing between eBay and Google regarding their competing checkout solutions, Google Checkout and Paypal. The conflict left Google in the dark when eBay decided to pull their AdWords listings from Google search results.
eBay called the move an ‘experiment’ claiming they wanted to test how the change in advertising would effect traffic to the site. The results are now out.…
Internet auction site eBay has decided to pull all their US search ads from Google, a shocking move by one of the company’s largest AdWords clients. The move is a response to Google’s planned disruption of ‘eBay Live’ an annual event for eBay sellers.
The partnership between Google and eBay has been on the rocks since the launch of Google Checkout, an online payment system that directly competes…
Yahoo! has announced it will be shutting down its auction service as of June 16th 2007. The closure affects Yahoo!’s U.S. and Canadian listings with auction sites in Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan to remain open.
The closure comes as little surprise with eBay commanding a huge 94% market share in the online auction segment. Hitwise research director LeeAnn Prescott noted that in the week ending 5th May, Yahoo!…
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An explosion at eBay’s PayPal division has caused the evacuation of 26 employees on Tuesday night. The fire department responded to the building at 7.31pm after a private security firm reported explosions may have occurred inside.
Nobody was injured in the incident and after a search of the company’s 100,000-square-foot complex no suspicious devices were found. “Whatever caused it was pretty strong’” said San Jose Fire Capt.…
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eBay - the World’s Biggest Online Markeplace has announced that it has agreed to purchase Shopping.com, for $620million worth of shares. This is based on $21 per share, for all outstanding shares on May 31st 2005.
Quoting from the press release:
The combination of Shopping.com and eBay will create a premier online shopping experience for individuals and businesses of all sizes. The acquisition will give eBay’s many sellers…
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